Imagine how many interviews Liza Minnelli has done in a career that's spanned more than 50 years and brought her an Academy Award, four Tony Awards, an Emmy Award and a Grammy Legend Award.

Probably more than she could imagine.

So when you ask the 67-year-old daughter of Judy Garland such standard questions as what she'll be performing at her Friday concert at the Bardavon, she often tosses off the answers with the same kind of bubbly — and rehearsed — speed with which she's danced on stages around the world.

"Oh, the things people like," she says sounding just like, well, Liza Minnelli.

When you ask her to be a bit more specific, she replies with another answer she must have given hundreds, if not thousands, of times.

"I do love performing," she says, quickly mentioning songs she practically owns, such as "Cabaret" and "Theme From New York, New York." "And I like to turn up the lights and talk (to the audience). I still get the same kick ..."

It's only when you ask her a slightly offbeat question such as "What's the name of your dogs?" that you get a glimpse of her passion outside show business.

"Emelina, Oscar and Blaize," she says, adding that walking the schnauzers in her Upper East Side neighborhood is the first thing she does every day and that Blaize was the nickname of her drummer and musical director, the late Bill LaVorgna, who also served the same roles for Minnelli's mother, Judy Garland.

But even when you ask whether she remembers playing the old Catskills resorts (which she has), Minnelli won't elaborate ... until you ask whether it's true that before one show at the old Concord resort she was introduced as something like "Lisa Magnolia."

That's when that familiar, still girlish voice comes alive with her trademark zest — with a capital Z.

"Oh honey, sure I do," she says. "They wrote a song because of that. Fred Ebb and John Kander wrote it. It's called 'Liza With a "Z." ' "